Monthly Archives: July 2012
Yahoo, Facebook Drop Patent Litigation, Launch New Strategic Alliance
Facebook subscribers might be seeing more purple "Y's" on their home pages soon, and Yahoo users may be looking at more blue thumbs-up as...
Objective-C Overtakes C++ in Programming Language Popularity
Objective-C, the language of the Apple world of iOS and the Mac, has overtaken C++ in a key index that measures the most popular...
Cisco: Cloud Connect No Longer Default Setting for Linksys Routers
Cisco Systems officials are continuing to try to calm customers still riled up over the automated updates to some of their Linksys wireless routers,...
Pew: Tech Firms Face Tough Choices When Dealing With Repressive Regimes
Tech companies in the future will continue to be influenced by the competing pressures of customer demands and profits when deciding how to deal...
Google Nexus 7
Google Nexus 7
Google calls the Nexus 7 a "no-compromise Android tablet," and has given it a price that should have competitors shaking: An 8GB...
MapR Integrates Hadoop Distro With Google Compute Engine
Data analytics software provider MapR Technologies has made its enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop distribution available to run on the new Google Compute Engine, introduced at...
Google, Apple Pull Trojan-Like ‘Find and Call’ Mobile App From Stores
Google and Apple have pulled an app from their mobile app stores after it was revealed it was sending user contact lists to a...
Finding Higgs
Finding Higgs
Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, and CMS experiment spokesman Joe Incandela share a laugh before the start of a press conference announcing the...
Intel May Cut Core i3 Price to Reduce Ultrabook Costs
Intel officials may be considering cutting the price of particular low-power chips in hopes of driving down the cost of Ultrabooks, which are competing...
Higgs Boson Discovery: Why It’s Important to All of Us
Its impossible to overstate the importance of the Higgs Boson, the discovery of which was announced at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)....